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035 _a(AEA)7ADF662F659D40B39ED3D29707958D42
040 _aAEA
_cAEA
100 _aAmmer, Christine
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245 4 _aThe American heritage dictionary of idioms /
_cChristine Ammer.
260 _a[Manila] :
_bNational Book Store,
_cc1997.
300 _av,
_b729 p.
_c23 cm.
500 _aReprint.
504 _aOriginally published : Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
520 _aand slang phrases such as push the envelope.
520 _acommon proverbs ,especially ones that often occur in abbreviated form,such as bird in the hand,colloquilaism such as off the beam and out in left field
520 _aemphatic redundancies whose word order cannot be reversed
520 _ainterjections and formula phrases,such as all the bests and take care
520 _asuch as far and wide and cease and desist
520 _aSurveys of the idioms currently used in American English.Includes common figures of speech ,such as dark horse and blind as a bat
650 _aAmericanisms
_2sears
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650 _aEnglish language
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650 _aEnglish language
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